Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

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Price
$20.00  $18.60
Publisher
St. Martins Press-3PL
Publish Date
Pages
400
Dimensions
5.63 X 8.27 X 1.06 inches | 0.82 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780312680107

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About the Author

Wesley Stace is the author of the international bestseller Misfortune and by George. He has released fifteen albums under the name John Wesley Harding, and he lives in Philadelphia.

Reviews

"A tremendously imaginative novel that's really several novels in one, for beneath its sparkling surface there are some very murky depths. A wonderfully disquieting read." --Sarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger

"This is one of the few novels I have read that is truly musical. Wesley Stace is a brilliant and intensely original writer and this is his most unusual book yet." --Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife

"A gripping narrative that twists and turns to the end...By far the most confident musical fiction I have read in years." --Norman Lebrecht, New Statesman (UK)

"Wesley Stace's tale of music and murder is a baroque intellectual thriller, wittily erudite and psychologically astute." --Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise

"We might have predicted that Wesley Stace---a fine novelist and a fine musician---would one day write a novel about music, but could we have predicted that it would be so brilliant? The dialogue sparkles, the prose glimmers, and for once you leave a novel not just haunted by the characters and the story, but humming the tunes." --Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters' Club

"[Stace's] twisty plot of jealousy and murder unfolds with Nabokovian precision during Britain's early twentieth-century folk and early music revival." --Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times (UK)

"Recalls one of the greatest and saddest novels of the period, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and follows the tradition of great novels of imaginary music." --Roz Kaveney, The Times Literary Supplement (UK)